I'm horrified by the news of Lara Logan's assault Friday while covering the protests in Tahrir Square. The CBS News foreign correspondent was separated from her "60 Minutes" crew in the mob and then surrounded. She "suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating" before being rescued by a group of women and Egyptian soldiers. She made it back to the States and is recovering in a hospital now. The whole story is just beyond awful; I'm at a loss for words.

And if that report somehow isn't stomach-turning enough, these repulsive posts (documented by an astute piece at Salon) that went up just hours after the news was released surely will be:

First is an L.A. Weekly blog post by Simone Wilson that notes that the "warzone 'it girl'" was "known for her shocking good looks and ballsy knack for pushing her way to the heart of the action." It describes the mob: "Then, in a rush of frenzied excitement, some Egyptian protesters apparently consummated their newfound independence by sexually assaulting the blonde reporter."

A MoFo Politics blog post two weeks ago, when Logan was detained overnight in Egypt, said, "OMG if I were her captors and there were no sanctions for doing so? I would totally rape her." Given today's terrible news, the site did edit the post -- only to say: "Super funny joke deleted in light of the sad news that Lara Logan actually was raped in Egypt. Can I just say, however, that I sooo totally called this." Disgusting.

And a fellow at the NYU Center for Law and Security, Nir Rosen, threw taste out the window on Twitter after he heard the news: "I'm rolling my eyes at all the attention she'll get." (He's since apologized -- "As someone who's devoted his career to defending victims and supporting justice, I'm very ashamed for my insensitive and offensive comments" -- and deleted some of the tweets, but you can find screen grabs at National Review Online.)

There are more, but I won't go on. I hesitated to even share these heinous comments, but in the end, I believe so strongly in one other thing I read that I think it's worth it.

This last quote is from Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams:

Here's what you do say when something like this happens. Like countless women around the world, Lara Logan was attacked in the line of duty. She was assaulted doing her job. It was a crime of unspeakable violence. And your opinion of how she does that job, the religion her assailants share with a few million other people, or the color of her hair had nothing to do with it.